Planet of the Arts vol.3 no.6 April 1988

Dan Wood 1964 - 1988

The following is a tribute to Dan Wood. It was read by Art Perry at Dan’s memorial service March 10, at the Hollyburn Funeral Home:

Please excuse me for reading from a prepared text. Believe me, it’s not that | don’t have endless things to say from my heart, but I’d just feel better reading something today.

At first | thought of presenting a crazy 8-mm movie | made with Dan in Paris. It is full of life and laughter. Then | thought | might read you some of his witty letters that would leave us all laughing with tears. And then there are almost fifteen years worth of photos of Dan that | have taken . . exhibitions, events and travelling with him in France. | have hundreds of those. We could all watch in amazement the apothe- osis of his hair as an artform.

But of all Dan’s gifts and charms, it was with his talent as an artist that | know he was most committed. Personally, | thought Dan was brilliantly mature and advanced in his understanding of contemporary art. He really did have a mega-mind for grasping the ideas complex ideas . . . of our time. Sometimes his brightness was almost frightening. | remember seeing his works for grad show and saying to myself... “This is not the work of a student. This is so well- understood and well-resolved.”

| remember too when Sandy and | got back from Europe after my leave from the art college, Dan came over and brought us a welcome home gift of one of his recent painings: it is still there over-our bed.

Another summer Dan worked with Sandy at the Contemporary Art Gallery and he surprised her with a portrait he’d painted of her. (Pause). It was the kind of unselfish generosity and love that I'll remember about Dan.

He was a storehouse of talents and gifts. . . and he shared them. We all know, if Dan had any spare money it was not to be saved but spent with his friends.

For myself, what I will miss the most will be our long conversations . . . conversations that went from

Notices

Vancouver Art Gallery: Members of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s Long Range Planning Committee will present their proposals at a public forum at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 14, at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Members of the committee are Gerald McGavin, Laing Brown, Geoff Day, Christos Dikeakos, Doris Shadbolt, Carole Taylor and VAG director Willard Holmes.

Copies of the Long Range Planning document will be available at the Gallery’s office reception area from April 7.

Centre for the Arts at the Simon Fraser University presents Be Prepared, a multimedia exhibition of visual art student work, March 31 through April 9th at the PEREL GALLERY, 112 W. Hastings. Please note Gallery Hours: Wed-Fri 2-6 and Sat 12-4.

For further information please contact Donna Clark: 255-7038

G.E.E.K.! a newly - formed club seeks members interested in Graphic Expressions and Experimental Komputing. Students involved with computer (whether in conjunction with video, audio, 2-D, 3-D, or Alterna- tive Studies) are invited to participate in weekly meetings geared to organizing a creative computer exchange. Meetings take place every Thursday from noon to one (bring your lunch and have a byte) in room 229. And B.Y.O.P.P. (bring your own pocket protector).

Georgia Medical Dental Building: as part of the campaign to save this Vancouver landmark from the wrecker’s ball an afternoon outdoor gala (followed by a cocktail party in the lobby of the Hong Kong Bank)

“gemngeameann onan

the music of Lou Reed-to the architecture of Manhat- tan or some recent article in Flash Art. One night we listened to Philip Glass for the first time. | had just bought the North Star album. Another night he brought over a whole folder of information on the painter Sean Scully. He knew much more than I did about Scully’s art and when | saw Scully’s paintings at the Tate Gallery, | understood them better because | had talked with Dan.

Another time we discussed his dad’s Ranch Project and Dan thought that Wall of Voodoo would be perfect music for the documentary film. And he

will take place April 30th. Anyone with ideas for events, performances, displays etc. should contact Rob (688-4671 or 733-5491).

Pee Wee’s Playhouse Pyjama Party: to celebrate the fact that those nasty rumours re: Pee Wee were completely untrue, Wednesday April 13 has been set aside for a retrospective viewing of this serious performance artist’s work. Selected Playhouse segments will be shown from 7:30 p.m. on, with popcorn and Smarties provided. Bring stuff and wear things. The secret word is : Dude.

Submissions

PEREL GALLERY 112 W. Hastings

Information regarding criteria for making submissions available at the Student Society Office.

Please drop off slides, c/v, etc. in the Student Society/

Perel Gallery box at the front office. Deadline Fri. April 8.

Notices will be posted re: show selected.

Personals

To all my friends in Foundation: thanks so much for the special birthday surprise - you made it the best ever! love Claire.

Classified

Holistic minded non-smoker, mature female E.C.C.A.D. student wants to share living/work space with same or professional.

Imagine yourself living in a penthouse warehouse artist’s live-in studio with a panoramic view of the

From J. Wayne Fears’ Sportsmans’ Guide to Swamp Camping.

Art Perry

was right. He usually was.

|, of course, remember too the wild days at 522 West Pender when the stove was painted bright red and then peeled back like a boiled tomato when the burners were turned on. There are a thousand stories about Dan from that place alone. The mayhem and the creative energies. . . Stories of Braineater and Dan Joy Blond Boy.

Speaking of Dan Joy Biond Boy, one of my

favourite memories is the time Dan convinced Alan to dye his hair black for one of my Hallowe’en parties.

Wearing a T-shirt printed for Dan’s band, The Last Sex on Earth, Alan became a bizarre punk Dracula. Believe me, it was a frightening image.

One thing | want to mention is how much Dan thought of his dad’s art. Dan always talked about his experiences with Alan. . . collecting things off Ambleside Beach for Alan’s constructions or working on the Ranch.. Dan was an unfaltering admirer and believer in his father’s talent.

For me, Dan was one of the few people | actually felt a bond with .. . intellectually we hit the same chord... his humour fit mine. And that charm... Dan was the only person who could arrive two hours late for dinner with a fabulous bottle of wine and an even more fabulous excuse. He could charm your rage better than anyone | know.

(pause)

So we have the memories, and they are good ones, great ones, brilliant ones in an often too drab too cloudy city.

And finally, my heart, as | am sure all of yours here today, goes out to Anna, Alan and Jenny. They more than any of us are left with a sweet storehouse of memories by Dan’s passing. | know they will cherish their memories as | will cherish mine.

It should be noted that the family has set up the Dan Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Greg Bellerby at the Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver.

Art Perry

Vancouver harbor and North Shore mountains in the heart of gastown...

The features are:

-2,500 sq. feet shared space including kitchen, bathroom, dining room, roof garden, living room, private bedroom and work space, hard wood floors, brick walls and high ceilings.

-Three fridges, two stoves, and a freight elevator for those really big works of art.

No toxic mediums, no band rehearsals and no wild parties need apply. All this for $500.00 per month including utilities. Some non live - in work space also available at reasonable rates.

Phone 681-9219 |

For May 1st: Male student seeks shared household with music-loving adults. Please call Jim: 879-4485.

Wanted Dead or Alive: a printmaker to screena poster for a major film release May 7, 1988. Contact David Vaisbord at E.C.C.A.D. Media Department or phone 733-9691.

Hey! Free!: Planet of the Arts prints your student classified ads free. Like this one. Too bad you waited so long - but, for your convenience, there will be one more issue. Imagine your delight.

a. Corrections Charles H. Scott Gallery : two misprints appeared in. the article about the Charles H. Scott Gallery (vol.3, number 5). The gallery is actually 2,500 square feet, and the summer attendance last year was 15,000. Sorry Betty!

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Planetofthe Arts vol.3.no.6 April 1988,

Dan Wood 1964 - 1988

The following Is a tribute to Dan Wood. It was read by Art Perry at Dan's memorial service March 10, at the Hollyburn Funeral Home:

lease excuse mo for reading rom a prepared toxt. Boliove me, is not that I don't have endless things to say from my heart, but fd just fee! bettor reading something today.

‘A first | thought of presenting a crazy &-mm movie | made with Dan in Paris. Its full of life and laughter. Then Ithought l might read you some of his witly letters that would leave us all laughing with ‘oars. And then there are almost fiteen years worth of photos of Dan that | have taken. .exhibtions, events ‘and traveling with him in France. 'have hundreds of those, We could all watch in amazement the apotho sis of his hair as an artform.

But ofall Dan's gitts and charms, it was with his talent as an arist that | know he was most committed. Personally, | thought Dan was brilianty mature and advanced in his understanding of contemporary art. He really did have a mega-mind for grasping the ideas complex ideas ... of our time. Sometimes his brightness was almost frightening. | remember seeing his works for grad show and saying to myself... “This isnot the work ofa student. This is so well understood and well-resolved."

| remember too when Sandy and I got back from Europe after my loave from the art college, Dan came ‘over and brought us a welcome home git of one of his recont painings: itis sil there over our bed.

‘Another summer Dan worked with Sandy at the Contemporary Art Gallery and he surpnsed her win a portrait he'd painted of her. (Pause). It was the kind of Unsolfish generosity and love that Il remember about Dan,

He was a storehouse of talonts and gifts... and he shared them. We all know, it Dan had any spare money it was not to be saved but spent with his friends.

For myself, what | will miss the most will bo our Jong conversations... conversations that went from

Notices

Vancouver Art Gallery: Members of the Vancouver, [Att Gallery's Long lange Planning Committee will ‘resent thoir proposals at a public forum at 7 p.m. ‘Thursday, April 14, atthe Vancouver Art Gallery. Mombors of the committeo are Gerald McGavin, Laing Brown, Gootf Day, Christos Dikeakos, Doris Shadbolt, Carole Taylor and VAG director Willard Holmes.

Copies of the Long Range Planning document will bo available at the Gallery's office reception area from April.

Centre for the Arts at the Simon Fraser University ‘presents Be Prepared, a multimedia exhibition of visual art student work, March 31 through April Sth at the PEREL GALLERY, 112 W. Hastings. Please note Gallory Hours: Wed-Fri 2-6 and Sat 12-4,

For futher information please contact Donna Clark: 255-7038

XK! a newiy- formed club seeks members interested in Graphic Expressions and Experimental ‘omputing. Students involved wth computer (whathor in conjunction wth video, audio, 2-0, , or Aterna- tive Studies) aro invited to participate in weekly ‘meetings goared to organizing a creative computor ‘exchange. Meetings taka place every Thureday from ‘noon to one (bring your lunch and have a byte) in ‘oom 228, And B.Y.O.P-P. (ring your own pocket protector)

Goorgla Medical Dental Building: as part of tho campaign to save this Vancouver andmark from tho wrecker’ balan afternoon outdoor gala (flowed by cocktail party inthe lobby ofthe Hong Kong Bank)

the music of Lou Reed tothe architeoture of Manhat- tan or some recent article in Flash At. One night wo listened to Philip Glass forthe first time. 1had just ‘bought the North Star album. Another night he ‘brought over a whole folder of information on the ppaintor Sean Scully. He knew much more than I did About Scully's an and when | saw Scully's paintings at the Tate Gallery, | understood them better bocause | had talked with Dan,

Another time we discussed his dad's Ranch Project and Dan thought that Wal of Voodoo would be perfect music for the documentary film. And he

will ake place April 30th. Anyone with ideas for ‘events, performances, displays etc. should contact Fob (688-4671 or 733-5491),

Poe Wee's Playhouse Pyjama Party: to celebrate the fact that those nasty rumours re: Pee Wee were ‘completely untrue, Wednesday April 13 has been set aside fora retrospective viewing ofthis serious performance artist's work. Selected Playhouse ‘segments willbe shown from 7:30 p.m. on, with popcorn and Smarties provided. Bring stuff and woar things. The secret word is : Dude.

Submissions

PERELGALLERY 112W. Hastings Information regarding criteria for making submissions available at the Student Society Office.

Please drop off slides, cv, etc. in the Student Society/ oral Gallery box at the front office. Deadline Fri. April 8. Notices will be posted ra: show selected.

Personals

‘To all my ftlends in Foundation: thanks so much for tho special bithday surprise - you made itthe best ‘ever! love Claire

Classified

Holistic minded non-smoker, mature female, E.C.C.AD. student wants to share livinghwork space with same or professional.

Imagine yoursot ving in a penthouse warehouse nist’ live-in studio with a panoramic view of the

From J. Wayne Fears’ Sportsmans’ Guide to Swamp Camping.

anPery

was right. He usually was.

|,of course, remember too the wild days at 522 West Pender when the stove was painted bright red land then peeled back like a boiled tomato when the burners were tuned on. There are a thousand stories. ‘about Dan from that place alone. The mayhem and. the creative energies... Stories of Braineater and Dan Joy Blond Boy.

‘Speaking of Dan doy Blond Boy, one of my favourite memories isthe time Dan convinced Alan to dye his hair black for one of my Hallowe'en parties, Wearing a T-shirt printed for Dan's band, The Last Sex on Earth, Alan became a bizarre punk Dracula Believe me, it was a frightening image.

‘One thing | want to mention is how much Dan thought of his dad's art. Dan always taked about his ‘experiences with Alan... collecting things off ‘Ambleside Beach for Alan's constructions or working fon the Ranch...Dan was an unfaitering admirer and bboliover in his father’s talent.

For mo, Dan was one ofthe few people | actually felt a bond with... intellectually we hit the same chord... his humour fit mine, And that charm... Dan was the only person who could arrive two hours late for dinner with a fabulous bottle of wine and an even more fabulous excuse, He could charm your rage better than anyone I know.

(pause)

‘So we have the memories, and they are good ‘ones, great ones, briliant ones in an often too drab too cioudy city,

‘And finaly, my heart, as | am sure allot yours here today, goes out to Anna, Alan and Jenny. They ‘more than any of us are left with a sweet storehouse ‘of memories by Dan's passing. | know they wil chorish their memories as | wil cherish mine,

It should be noted that the family has set up the Dan Wood Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Grog Bollerby at the Contemporary Art Gallery, 555 Hamilton Street, Vancouver.

ArtPerry

‘Vancouver harbor and North Shore mountains in the heat of gastown.

The features are:

2,500 sq. fet shared space including kitchen, bathroom, dining room, roof garden, living room, private bedroom and work space, hard wood floors, brick walls and high cellings.

Three fridges, two stoves, and a freight elevator for those really big works of at.

No toxic mediums, no band reheareals and no wild Parties need apply. All his for $500.00 per month Including utilities. Some non lve - in work space also avalabla at reasonable rates.

Phone 681-9219

For May 1st: Malo student seoks shared household with music-oving adults, Please call Jim; 879-4485,

Wanted Dead or Alive: a printmaker to screen a poster for a major film release May 7, 1988, Contact David Vaisbord at E.C.C.A.D. Media Department or phone 733-9691.

Hoy! Free!: Planet ofthe Arts prints your student classified ads free. Like this one. Too bad you waited 0 long - but, for your convenience, there willbe one ‘more issue. Imagine your delight

H. Soott Gallery : two misprints appeared in the article about the Charles H. Scott Gallery (vol.3, ‘number 5). The gallary is actually 2,500 square feet, ‘and the summer attendance last year was 15,000. Sorry Batty!

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